I thought I was on /k/ for a minute.
>>509276386Nietzsche is inspirational. You're thinking of Schopenhauer the blackpilled annoying faggot.
>>509277411>>509277729Thank you for your service.
It takes a strong mind to realize what you fought for doesn't align with your ideals.
So is the mechanism of the world we live in, where we side with evil every day and sometimes the lesser evil. Being a soldier doesn't make you ontologically evil. Being unaware doesn't make you guilty of someone else's agency.
The last culturally and ideologically aligned ethnostate was wiped off the map by us in WW2, now it's little brother in the middle east tells us what to do.
Soldiers under Alexander the Great shared a glorious conquest. He dined and feasted with his men. Soldiers under Gustavus Adolphus still had the glory of charging into combat with their leader. Soldiers under Abraham Lincoln were lucky to see glimpses of him at the front lines. Soldiers under Roosevelt never saw their Commander in Chief at all.
Maddening isn't it?
The farther away a leader is from the fight the less they have to care about what goals are achieved.
99% of soldiers do not verbalize this realpolitik in the imagination. If they do, the only real justification to be a soldier is the pay. Your sacrifices are real that's why - how much you feel you should be proud of them is up to you, and how much you deem the reward worth it.
After all, we live in an individualist society that supposedly praises uniqueness and values self-determination. So a collective goal is naturally beneath the individual without incentive.
Hence we are all "American" despite our different skin color and backgrounds, because being American isn't special anyone can be American. So go and fight for oil and peace, patriot.
Do we blame a slave for the actions of it's master? A slave answers yes because he has no agency. The master answers no because he wants to keep his own. You can choose to be the slave or master of your own destiny.